A Business Association of Faith Corporation. An F-Corp is a spiritual-impact company that:
Type-B, Franciscan, 10% CSR, 10% CFR, 10% CBR.
Status: Market Testing
Type-B, Franciscan, 10% CSR, 10% CFR, 10% CBR.
Status: Alpha Launch
Type-B, Franciscan, 10% CSR, 10% CFR, 10% CBR.
Status: Prototyping
New methods and new forms of expression are needed to convey to the people of today the perennial truth of Jesus Christ, forever new and the source of all newness. Only a sound and robust faith, witnessed in a poignant manner in the lives of the martyrs, can give impetus to many short-term or long-range pastoral projects, breathe new life into existing structures and spur a pastoral creativity to meet the needs of people today and the expectations of present-day society.~ INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS
Faith Corporation is a Holy, Caring, Spiritual, and Loving Company where God dwells in. It creates an environment that allows Christians to perform their Godly duties. It also gives back to society & nourished by Religious Community. All F-Corps operate closely with one another in a F-Corp Business Association.
The goal of all Faith Corporation is to create Faith-Based Industries that runs the economy of Christian population, as declared in Christendom 2.0 manifesto, a land of active & respectful evangelization in the business world.
In humility, in the Catholic Church, we dream a global economy that uses business to internally create a Christian space for religious freedom and to externally create missionary impact, we call it Christendom 2.0.
This economy includes a new form of corporation, the F Corporation, which is both purpose-driven and spiritual-driven, creating Christian spiritual & material benefits to all stakeholders and employees. It is consecrated to Jesus Christ & His Church and aimed for building Christian culture in a company where Jesus dwells so that we will be His people and He will be our God.
As F Corporations and Christian leaders of this economic zone, we believe:
Then St Francis ascended the pulpit, and began to preach in so wonderful a way on holy penance, on the world, on voluntary poverty, on the hope of life eternal, on the nakedness of Christ and on the shame of the Passion of our Blessed Saviour.~ Little Flower of St. Francis
We acknowledge that situation in each diocese is different. Therefore, we provide multiple options to see what fits challenge of the local Church. Please consult with your diocese or connect us to them.
Create space with Catholic identity & ethics that gives back to the community & helps each other financially. It increases the Catholic presence, increase positive impacts on behalf of Christ, and is a new evangelization by its essence. Catholics who work here serve God simultaneously.
Create a consecrated Catholic space with highly effective spirituality & ethics inside. It gives back to the community & helps each other financially. Its impact should be aimed for various missionary work, religious good industries, and social impact companies.
A | B | C | |
Cash Donation from other F-Corp | max reallocated amount | Any | |
Incentive with local government / Church | x | x | |
6 Month Office (Incubator) | x | x | |
Discount from other members through Catholicer portal | x | x | x |
Legal Help for Startup | 3mo | 6mo | 12mo |
Monthly Mentorship Program | 3mo | 6mo | 12mo |
Connections & Advisory Service | x | x | x |
Access to Training Catholicer Provides | x | x | x |
Access to events Catholicer Provides | Limited | x | x |
And wherever brothers meet one another, let them act like members of a common family. And let them securely make their needs known to one another, for if a mother loves and cares for her carnal son, how much more should one love and care for his spiritual son? And if one of them should become ill, let the other brothers serve him as they themselves would like to be served.Rule of St. Francis
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
Christendom 2.0 Declaration of Interdependence Click here to download | A,B,C | Signed Document | 10 | |
Irrevocably Catholic, regardless change of leadership | By-Laws/Signed Doc | 5 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
Requirement to continually have a Chaplain & Declaration of Spirituality. Download here. | A,B,C | By-Laws/Signed Doc | 7 | |
>2hr Weekly Religious Program throughout Company & participated by all Catholic C-levels | A,B,C | Operation | 10 | |
C-Level Rep to participate in all Update Meetings conducted by any F-Corp Alliance's Chapter | A,B,C | Operation | 10 | |
Clergy / Religious on Board of Director | A,B,C | Minute / Document | 5 | |
Dedicated Person for F-Corp Implementation | Operation | 2 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
Target Church/Poor/F-Corp/Christian Society FIRST, THEN everyone | By-Laws/Signed Doc | 5 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
Endorsement from Pontifical Religious Order / Diocese | C | Signed Document | 3 | |
Pledge obedience | B,C | Signed Document | 10 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
Basic Faith Corporation Business Conduct. Download here. | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
In exception of the Catholic Church Authority requiring a specific leader or declining a specific leader, it should be free of discrimination and sexual harassment, as well as harassment or discrimination based on such factors as race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity characteristics or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, or any other basis protected by local law. | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
Alcohol, Drugs, Sex and a Smoke Free Policy | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
Money Laundering Policy | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
Antitrust and Competition Law Policy | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
Gifts to Operating Country's Officials Policy | A,B,C | Written Policy | 3 | |
No Bribery or Corruption | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
No Political Contributions | B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
Community Activities and Public Positions. Comply with applicable laws and regulations and operate in ways that benefit the communities in which we conduct business. | A,B,C | Written Policy | 5 | |
Business Conduct Helpline | Written Policy | 3 | ||
Refuse to do business with companies that intentionally violate human rights. | A,B,C | Written Policy | 3 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
Cafeteria benefits | Written Policy | 1 | ||
Flexible hours | Written Policy | 1 | ||
Parental leave | Written Policy | 1 | ||
Work-from-home | Written Policy | 1 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
Declaration of Faith & Waiver & Interdependence package for new hire. Click here to view | A,B,C | Written Policy | 10 | |
Adding Corporate Faith Responsibility (CFR) to CSR | Written Policy | 4 | ||
Regular Average Salary / Executive Average Salary >= 0.2 | Financial Report | 5 | ||
0.2 > Regular Average Salary / Executive Average Salary >= 0.1 | Financial Report | 2 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
5%< Profit reallocation <= 7.5% | Financial Report | 1 | ||
7.5%< Profit reallocation < 10% | Financial Report | 2 | ||
>10% Profit reallocation | Financial Report | 4 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
5%< Profit reallocation <= 7.5% | Financial Report | 1 | ||
7.5%< Profit reallocation < 10% | Financial Report | 2 | ||
>10% Profit reallocation | Financial Report | 4 |
Desc | Checklist | Mandatory | Audit | Point |
5%< Profit reallocation <= 7.5% | Financial Report | 1 | ||
7.5%< Profit reallocation < 10% | Financial Report | 2 | ||
>10% Profit reallocation | Financial Report | 4 |
To observe the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, living in obedience without anything of our own, and in chastity. Brother Francis promises obedience and reverence to the Lord Pope Honorius and his canonically elected successors, and to the Roman Church; and the rest of the brothers are obliged to obey Francis and his successors.Rule of St. Francis
Our Incubator called "Catholicer Space" is available for Catholics who would like to create a F-Corp startup.
Let's start from there
Community, Process, & Spirituality have been proven to be effective carriers of Evangelization. With communities, a society creates their own identity and culture. Couple for Christ, as an example, at one point had 1 million members. With strategy & structure, a society removes confusion and work for the same mission. Let's look at how much Mercy has been part of the Christian conversation after Pope Francis declared the year of Mercy. With Spirituality, people experience kerygma, love, draw, wonder, conversions, sanctification. St. Francis with His Spirituality & Mystical Experiences has been a vehicle by God to draw millions or billions souls to Him.
Catholicer focuses on creating F-Corporation concepts to embody these important aspects of evangelization. F-Corporation is a for-profit/non-profit organization certified by Catholicer, for business/charity/others, which bylaws and operations reflect the following:
CATHOLIC CULTUREIn order to understand Faith Corporation and Christendom 2.0, we need to be in one heart accepting various Vatican II council documents & Pope's encyclicals.
Work is one of these aspects, a perennial and fundamental one, one that is always relevant and constantly demands renewed attention and decisive witness. Because fresh questions and problems are always arising, there are always fresh hopes, but also fresh fears and threats, connected with this basic dimension of human existence: man's life is built up every day from work, from work it derives its specific dignity, but at the same time work contains the unceasing measure of human toil and suffering, and also of the harm and injustice which penetrate deeply into social life within individual nations and on the international level. While it is true that man eats the bread produced by the work of his hands5 - and this means not only the daily bread by which his body keeps alive but also the bread of science and progress, civilization and culture - it is also a perennial truth that he eats this bread by "the sweat of his face"6, that is to say, not only by personal effort and toil but also in the midst of many tensions, conflicts and crises, which, in relationship with the reality of work, disturb the life of individual societies and also of all humanity.
We are celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the Encyclical Rerum Novarum on the eve of new developments in technological, economic and political conditions which, according to many experts, will influence the world of work and production no less than the industrial revolution of the last century. There are many factors of a general nature: the widespread introduction of automation into many spheres of production, the increase in the cost of energy and raw materials, the growing realization that the heritage of nature is limited and that it is being intolerably polluted, and the emergence on the political scene of peoples who, after centuries of subjection, are demanding their rightful place among the nations and in international decision-making. These new conditions and demands will require a reordering and adjustment of the structures of the modern economy and of the distribution of work. Unfortunately, for millions of skilled workers these changes may perhaps mean unemployment, at least for a time, or the need for retraining. They will very probably involve a reduction or a less rapid increase in material well-being for the more developed countries. But they can also bring relief and hope to the millions who today live in conditions of shameful and unworthy poverty.
It is not for the Church to analyze scientifically the consequences that these changes may have on human society. But the Church considers it her task always to call attention to the dignity and rights of those who work, to condemn situations in which that dignity and those rights are violated, and to help to guide the above-mentioned changes so as to ensure authentic progress by man and society.
“A Christian,” said Pope Francis, “must proclaim Jesus Christ in such a way that He be accepted: received, not refused – and Paul knows that he has to sow the Gospel message. He knows that the proclamation of Jesus Christ is not easy, but that it does not depend on him. He must do everything possible, but the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the proclamation of the truth, depends on the Holy Spirit. Jesus tells us in today’s Gospel: ‘When He shall come, the Spirit of truth, shall guide you into all the truth.’ Paul does not say to the Athenians: ‘This is the encyclopedia of truth. Study this and you have the truth, the truth.’ No! The truth does not enter into an encyclopedia. The truth is an encounter – it is a meeting with Supreme Truth: Jesus, the great truth. No one owns the truth. We receive the truth when we meet [it]. But why did Paul act as he did? First, the Pope said, because “this is the way” of Jesus who “spoke with everyone” with sinners, publicans, teachers of the law. Paul, therefore, “follows the attitude of Jesus”: “The Christian who would bring the Gospel must go down this road: [must] listen to everyone! But now is a good time in the life of the Church: the last 50 or 60 years have been a good time – for I remember when as a child one would hear in Catholic families, in my family, ‘No, we cannot go to their house, because they are not married in the Church, eh!’. It was as an exclusion. No, you could not go! Neither could we go to [the houses of] socialists or atheists. Now, thank God, people do not says such things, right? [Such an attitude] was a defense of the faith, but it was one of walls: the LORD made bridges. First: Paul has this attitude, because it was the attitude of Jesus. Second, Paul is aware that he must evangelize, not proselytize.
Our work raised a lot of questions, it is normal and expected for New Evangelization is all about new forms. A bishop said to us, we lift up walls of compartmentalized system and people are confused how to react to it.
The scripture stated, that work is essential to cultivate the creation. We believe, business is not to make money. Business is a holy calling for entrepreneurs to serve God, to cultivate nature, and to love mankind. Throughout history, God has always been working with those who worked. Separation of God and Work have caused so much problem to the point of souless economic result (JP2). God should always be present in all parts of our life.
Nevertheless, Church as a hierarchy is a different discussion. F-Corps exist to build economy of the Christian society to care for one another. The reason Catholicer chose to be an independent entity, is because it would not be healthy to put businessman under the hierarchy of the Church authority.
It is embodied in our declaration of interdependence, that our F-Corp, like B-Corp of social-impact companies, is not for making one rich, but to focus on spiritual impacts. The question is not so much about what they do with the money if the company goes big, the first question is usually how can this company even survive for they are heroically committed to reallocate such a high % of profits for others.
The use of Catholic identity in Catholicer F-Corps is not to show off or to use branding/marketing strategy. Identity is an integral part to offer the whole result to God, so we, servant leaders, do not get the credit too much. In some area of the world where religion is well acknowledged, the lack of identity will hinder collaborations with other Church organs. In other area of the world where religion is controversial, absence of identity may bring lawsuit/danger to these companies.
An initial focus on Faith Industries are to create healthy economy among Christian population or for the sake of the poor, and expand it to everyone to ensure inclusivity. Although some take advantages of it to safeguard our brothers/sisters from religious extremism, F-Corps may not be suitable in some areas and its existence must be well discerned in case it may trigger conflicts. F-Corps should not be used to declare superiority or to deteriorate their competitors.
However much we hope of a good thing we can share to others, the Lord always has His own say. We are not superior or better than anyone, we are doing this simply because we love the Church, God, and everyone to help them find salvation. We reject looking down on existing good business structure and models out there. They serve their purpose and we serve our purposes, but we hope that we can collaborate with everyone.
First of all, we do not convert people, we voluntarily work for Christ and His Church. Helping, convincing, numerizing, dying for others in the sole agenda of changing others may give us problem and could be sinful. We believe giving to others what is best for them is a noble act. If doing what Jesus, St. Francis, and Mother Teresa did is radical and brings us rejection, then, we will endure the pain. However, some misunderstand what evangelization truly is. St. Francis taught us to evangelize without words, but he spoke in the Church often and people know what who he is. Many falsely believe Mother Teresa never talked about Christ when helping others. Although the conversion of heart is the work of the Holy Spirit, inability to meet, to dialog, and to interact with others in the way we can truly be ourselves in Christ would hinder the work of Holy Spirit, for He works through His people.